Improvement in corn-poppers



NPETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D, C.

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Letters Patent No. 93,271, dated August 3, 1869. Y

The lBc-:lzlednle referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Know all men by. these presents.-

lhat I, J. H. BIGELOW, of the city and county of Worcester, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corn- Poppers; and I do hereby declare' that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a'plan' view of my improved corn-pepper, and

Figure 2 represents a longitudinal section, at line A B, fig. 1.

llo enable those skilled in the alt to which my invention belongs, to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe it more in detail.

My invention relates to the manner of constructing the wire attachment which connects the handle to the popping-box.

In the drawings- A indicates the handle, and

B, the popping-box, connected together by the wire attachment G, which is constructed'as' follows:

A piece of wire, D, of suitable dimensions, is doubled together in its centre, as shown at a, -and a portion of its length formed into a conical socket, b, the two strands being wound spirally together, as shown in .the drawings.

At the end of the socket b the strands are separated, and a second piece of wire, E, is placed across them, and its ends twisted with said strands of wire D, therehy forming the arms F.

The ends of wire E are then passed through holes in the binding g, at the rear edge of thel popping-box B, and also through! corresponding holes at the back of its cover G, and being bent into loops d, they form the hinges of thecover-G, while the ends of wire D Vare passed beneath th'e bottom ofthe popping-box B,

toits front side, and 'are then clinched through the `binding g, as shownat f.

The end of the handle A is turnedto fit the conical. socket b, into which it is inserted, and there retained by a wire, e, which projects between the two first coils of the spiral b.

as shown and described.V

The wire e is made in the form of a staple, with one of its sides longervthan the other.

Two holes being 'formed in the handle A, this staple is inserted from the lower side and driven through where the longer arm h is clinched down, as indicated in dotted lines, iig. 2, whereby the wire is prevented from being drawn ont, and, at lthe same time, the back of the staple m', resting against the wood of the handle A, prevents it from and also forms a shoulder, against which the socket b rests, as shown in iig. 2.

By my mode of constructing the attachment, the handle vmay be readily detached from the other portions of the pepper, the only operation required for thatl `purpose being the wire e from between the coils of the socket b, when simply to tum the handle, which frees the handle can be drawn out. v

In this way the poppers can be closely packed for shipment, and easily put together by the buyer without the use of screws or nails.

It will be observed that the spiral coils, which .form the socket, act as screw-threads in the attachment of the handle.

ers p What I claim as new and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Thecombination, with the corn-popper, of the doubled wire D, having a portion of its length bent 'or twisted, substantially as described, so as to form a socket for the reception of the handle.

2. The combinatiomfwith the corn-popperfand its handle, of the doubled wire D, its socket b, and the staple-'retaining wire e fm, h, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination, with thevpopping-box B,'cover G, and handle A, of the wire socket b and wires D E,

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. Witnesses: y

Taos. H. Dones, ALBERT E. Piemon.

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Having described my improvements in corn-pop- 

